Dana Dugan

“Salmon are an unlikely vehicle for a world-changing venture, but [Johan] Andreassen and his cousin Bjorn-Vegard Lovik saw potential to alter the way fish are grown for human consumption,” writes Andrew S. Lewis. “In the 1990s the cousins were the first to introduce tiny, sea-lice-eating fish into open-water salmon cages, called net-pens, in their native Romsdal, Norway.

“Few kitchen tools have names that are literally prescriptive. A knife, for instance, does not describe its purpose. A blender, a juicer, and a food processor come closer, but these names describe functions and are open to an infinite range of inputs,” writes Abe Beame. “The tortilla press, also called a tortilladora or prensa, on the other hand, is named precisely for the single task it was created to perform: pressing balls of dough into tortillas.

“Before the new obesity drugs came on the market, almost no one used the term food noise. Researchers studying and developing drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro and Zepbound analyzed doses, side effects, weight loss and improvements in conditions such as diabetes, heart disease and sleep apnea. Incessant thoughts about food and internal dialogues about what to eat, what not to eat, when to eat, how to resist eating — these were not on the research agenda.